Accidental Meeting With the Champion, or A Chance Meeting with the Champion in the official K Manga English translation is Round 111 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
Details
- Characters Introduced: Eiji Date
- Real Life People Mentioned: Roberto Durán
- Title Page Character(s): Ichirō Miyata
Summary
After the vomiting incident, Takamura names the new member (Naomichi Yamada): "Geromichi". Aoki finds Yamada's wallet, and the latter frantically tries to stop him from opening it. Takamura holds Yamada while Aoki opens the wallet showing a picture Ippo, revealing Yamada to be his fan. They leave Ippo to look over Yamada, so he tries teach him the basics and demonstrates him some moves but coach Kamogawa reminds him of his injury. The day of Takamura, Kimura, and Aoki's fight, Ippo and Yamada go to the locker rooms and wish Aoki good luck before the fight. When they leave, Ippo shares his experiences as a pro, but they are interrupted by Fujii, who wants to introduce Ippo to the Japanese champion of the featherweight class; Eiji Date.
Trivia
Volume 9's author note with a photo of Morikawa and Noriko Sakai.
- In pages 2-9, Ippo is wearing a shirt with "NORI-P" on the front. "NORI-P" is a reference to singer Noriko Sakai (酒井 法子) who has a nickname called "Nori-P" (のりピー). There is picture of Morikawa with her on volume 9's author note. Morikawa seemingly was a fan of the singer, and early female character appearances may also be based on her in the past.
- While Shinoda had appeared many times ever since Ippo vs. Yūsuke Oda, this is the first chapter he spoke and the first time he is depicted with a moustache.
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